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HALACHOS OF MELAVE MALKA
1) There is a custom amongst those in Chasidic circles to relate stories about the Ba'al Shem Tov (founder of the Chasidic movement) and about other Tzadikim at the Melave Malka meal. Doing so is a Segulah of sorts for these righteous souls to be heavenly advocates on their behalf. (See Minchas Shabbos; Shiyurei Mincha 96:6)
2) Eating Melave Malka, besides for being a Mitzvah, is also a Segulah for various good things. The Sefer Chayei Moshe (page 158) lists the following Segulos:
a) For Refuah, healing. (See Talmud Shabbos 119b)
b) For Parnassah, livelihood. (MaHaritz Gai'os)
c) For Arichas Yamim, long life (Sefer Ohr HaShabbos in the name of Rav Dovid of Lelov Zatzal)
d) For Bonim, children. (Toldos Kol Aryeh, letter 137)
e) For Tikun HaBris, rectification of breaches in holiness. (Rimzei Shabbos 732)
f) For women to have easy labor. (The Rebbe Rav Elimelech of Lizensk Zatzal)
g) For general Yeshuos, salvation for problems. (Chamra Tava 127:1 quoting Rav Eliezer of Lizensk Zatzal)
Additionally, eating Melave Malka protects and rescues from Chibut HaKever, Klipos, thoughts of Kefirah, depression and from various sicknesses. (See Chayei Moshe ibid. and Kaf Hachaim Siman 300:4)
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I wanted to know what the exact halachos are regarding sleeping in clothes and shoes? I have heard that sleeping in clothes and shoes is bad.
Answer:
One should not sleep in his/her clothes or shoes. See Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Siman 71:5
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Question:
Is it a kindliness of Hashem that people are suffering in this world?
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
Now, let's take a visit to all the dentist's offices. The dentists are devils. They're standing with instruments of torture, and they're inflicting suffering on people. And when they get through with them, they say, "Pay me!" We should close down all the dentist offices! Of course we understand the dentists are angels of mercy. For that little bit of suffering we're going to be spared a great deal of trouble later in life.
Therefore we understand that people in the hospitals are being given a treatment. Some are being treated so that when they come out they will be happier for the rest of their lives. Some are being treated, they should be happy in the next world, because the next world is the real life. Now if you're trying to solve the problems of this world by ignoring Olam Habah, then I explained once: it's like a child going into a wedding hall and he sees people giving all their coats away through a little hole in the wall to a man, and they get back a little piece of paper. And the child asks, "What kind of business is that?"
He doesn't know that they are putting their coats away for awhile; they're going into a wedding hall where they are going to enjoy a lot of things. And therefore if you don't know that there's a lobby and there's a wedding hall, you won't understand this world. This world is only a lobby. Olam Hazeh Domeh L'prozdor, it's a lobby for Olam Habah. Haskain Atzmicha B'prozdor, prepare yourself in this P'rozdor. Now some people are lazy, they didn't prepare themselves.
So here is a man walking with his overcoat in a posh fancy wedding hall. So the usher at the entrance says, "Nothing doing, sir." And the man says, "I want to go with my coat." So the usher pulls off his coat from him. And so some people didn't prepare themselves for Olam Habah and they're still covered with all kind of woolly things. So Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "My friend, come into the hospital, let's remove a little bit from you. This bad Midah, arrogance, and other wrong things, so you should be ready for the next world." And therefore people suffer in the hospitals, and then when they die they're purified, because suffering humbles a man.
You can't be an arrogant person when you're in a hospital bed. When you need a bed pan and you're embarrassed, you ring the bell, and the nurse brings the bed pan. You have to move your bowels on a bed pan, you can't be "stuck up" in that situation. It's very humiliating, and it's the very best experience for a lot of people. They have to be humiliated to get to the next world, because Ga'avah Rosh Kol Chatos, arrogance is one of the worst qualities. Also, suffering teaches the person to sympathize with others. And a man who goes through it himself, he is in a hospital bed, even though he dies in the hospital he dies a better man, he has sympathy for mankind.
And therefore the hospital is nothing but a dentist's office where the people are getting fillings that will last them forever and ever.
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